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A free-to-play online crime sandbox by KEFIR, built on extraction-shooter rules. You rob targets in the city of Looty Bay, escape with the loot, sell or launder it, build a base in the desert, and climb from broke Hobo to Shadow Governor before the weekly wipe. Every cop and criminal is a real player.

KEFIR, the studio behind Last Day on Earth: Survival, Frostborn and Grim Soul. Kefir develops and publishes it.

It entered Steam Early Access on 4 November 2026, with servers opening at 17:00 UTC. A Steam playtest ran from 30 October to 2 November.

Yes. It's free to play on Steam. The only purchases are cosmetic items bought with B-Coins.

No, according to Kefir. B-Coins only buy cosmetics and don't affect stats, balance or progression.

Windows PC through Steam only. There's no PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Mac or mobile version announced.

Not officially. The game uses kernel-level Easy Anti-Cheat, and Proton support isn't enabled, so Steam Deck and Linux are unsupported for now.

Up to about 5,000 per server. The game calls a server a "state".

No. ROB RUN is online-only PvP. Cops, criminals and raiders are all players.

Kefir's estimate is 6 to 12 months. The price stays free after Early Access.

English, Russian, French, German, Spanish (Spain) and Portuguese (Brazil). English and Russian have full voice-over.

Kefir's Steam page says AI is used to create certain graphic elements.

Windows 10 64-bit, Intel i5-6600K or Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB RAM, GTX 1050 Ti / RX 580 / Arc A380, DirectX 11, 20 GB of storage and a broadband connection.

Intel i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB RAM, RTX 2070 / RX 5700 XT / Arc B570, with the same 20 GB and DirectX 11.

No controller support is listed. The game expects a physical keyboard and mouse.

Every wipe starts you as a Hobo at Lenny's Motel. Finish the intro quests and talk to Lenny. Then grab a free rental car, scout Looty Bay without a mask, do one small robbery, sell the loot to a Fence, and start saving for your first plot.

Talk to Lenny. He sells Black Market gear through his Trade Laptop, stores your cash (the only place a Hobo can), launders money for a cut and runs barter trades.

Starter weapons spawn as loot around Looty Bay, and the basic pistol is cheap on Lenny's laptop. Cops on duty get a free pistol, too.

A Lockpick ($99, opens doors without the alarm), a Sports Bag (more rows) and a Versatile Pouch (quick slots). After that, save for a Land Plot Title.

Rent one for free at any Parking Terminal whenever you don't have an active vehicle.

A corner store. Park facing the exit, put on the mask, take one bag and drive out. Don't chain a second target straight away.

Press H, or use the side menu, at the Motel, in the desert or in Looty Bay.

Both work. Solo players start at Notoriety level 4 and get selling and looting bonuses. Squads win straight fights. A party holds up to 3 players.

You pick a role every time you enter Looty Bay. Citizens explore safely, can't fight and lose nothing on death. Criminals wear a mask, can rob, and are fair game for everyone. Cops enlist at the Police Station, get free gear and can only attack criminals.

Put on a mask inside Looty Bay. From then on, cops and other criminals can attack you.

Leave the city. Taking the mask off doesn't clear the status; only driving out of Looty Bay does.

It depends on your role and where you die. A Citizen in the city loses nothing. A masked Criminal loses both the bag and equipped gear. In the desert or a settlement you always lose everything you carry. Cops only lose department-issued gear.

Press Q to raise your hands. The cop takes your bag and you keep everything you're wearing. A normal arrest doesn't give you a prison sentence.

Yes, if you have money in your bank account. You offer it in steps of $10,000, up to $200,000. If the cop accepts, you leave with your bag and gear.

Yes. Gear loses durability every time you die. There's no repair yet; Kefir says weapon repair is planned.

No. Everyone in a group must have the same role in Looty Bay.

Every player gets a personal 40-minute timer in the city. When it runs low you're warned to leave before the feds arrive. A criminal who stays loses equipment and items.

Your character stays in the world for a short time and can still be killed. A Criminal who quits inside the city dies on the spot and loses gear and inventory, so always drive out first.

Short detention for traffic offenses: running people over, vandalism, blocking with a car, knockdowns. At offense level 10 you're locked up for a while and can't use your items or change role.

Use a Lockpick on doors and containers, don't break glass, hack the electrical panel where there is one to kill cameras and alarms, break cameras before they spot you, and keep the clerk at gunpoint.

Usually not. Holding them at gunpoint stops the alarm. Killing NPCs raises your wanted level, and at 3 points everyone in the city sees where you are.

It's the third and highest wanted level, reached by killing NPCs. Your location is shown to everyone in the city.

A Drill for the vault door (barter: a filled Action Camera, 2 filled USB Hacking Tools and $50,000) and an ID Card for the gold vault (barter: 1 filled Deposit Box Keys). Drilling alerts the whole city.

Gold Bars (8 spawn points, $52,000 each at Notoriety 1), Bank Money Bags (5 spots, $60,000 to the Smuggler), cash, deposit boxes and bank safes. Bank safes need a Mini Drill.

The egg is BIG EGG #53 at the Art Gallery in Parkside. Only a Glass Cutter opens its case, and you get one by bartering 3 filled Code Tablets. Take the egg out of the city and sell it to a Fence for around $550,000 or more.

You need a Jammer: install it on the Buletti Soltempra and wait for access. As of November 2026 the Jammer isn't in loot or barter, so the heist can't be done yet. You can buy the car on a Tier III laptop for $10,000,000 instead.

Collect 20 Evidence and barter them for an ID Card. It opens the armory at the Police Station in Parkside, where Exotic weapons like the LM 249 Mk2 spawn.

They're criminal-only city events. You get a 3-minute warning and a map marker, then 10 minutes in which the first player to the spot takes the loot. Valuable Cargo is in a car trunk (about 7 seconds to grab). Tip-off is an ATM about to receive a large batch of cash.

Sell them to a Fence. They stack 5 per slot. The old Gold Bars → Buletti barter was removed at release.

Sell them. The Golden Statue is cargo worth $250,000 to the Smuggler.

Yes. Masked criminals can kill other criminals in the city, and anyone can be killed in the desert. Fence drop-off points get camped, and Kefir says that's intended.

Three people: one breaks in, one hauls loot, one covers. Scout and park for the exit before anyone puts on a mask.

Each key's description names its door. Room Keys open locked rooms in shops, hotels and the strip club. Safe Keys open specific safes. Keycards and ID Cards open high-security doors.

The Downtown Gas Station has two hidden rooms, left and right. Each needs its own Room Key.

Cracking safes in Looty Bay is how you fill a Code Tablet. Safes inside other players' bases need a Master Key.

It opens other players' safes and security cabinets during a raid. It costs $55,000 (research $50,000, tier II) and stacks to 5.

Bank safes. Research $100,000, price $18,000, tier II.

Computers sit in locked rooms. Hacking one fills a USB Hacking Tool (5 points). The Art Gallery has an extra computer worth 2 points per action.

Collect 20 and barter them for the ID Card that opens the police armory.

Your criminal level, from 1 to 5. It rises as you commit crimes during a visit and raises what Fences and the Smuggler pay you.

Fence prices go up 10% at level 2, 20% at 3, 35% at 4 and 50% at 5. Smuggler cargo prices go up 5%, 10%, 15% and 25%.

Almost any crime: stealing, opening containers, searching loot spots, hacking panels, breaking cameras, shooting, placing a Drill, breaking into trunks, selling loot, finishing events, damage and kills.

Yes. Solo players start at level 4, and a duo starts at level 2.

No. Notoriety is your criminal rank and earns money. Wanted level (0–3) comes from killing NPCs and only brings police heat.

In Looty Bay, talk to the officer at the Police Station in Parkside and enlist if a slot is free. You get free gear and a patrol car for the shift.

Each city allows only 4 cops at a time. Kefir acknowledges the wait and says police duty will be improved.

Badges. A Sergeant's, Lieutenant's or Captain's Badge unlocks better kit for one shift. Badges are single-use and come from loot, salaries or Lenny's laptop.

Sergeant's: research $30,000, buy $8,000 (tier I). Lieutenant's: $200,000 / $40,000 (tier II). Captain's: $500,000 / $100,000 (tier III). 15 Sergeant's Badges also barter for one Lieutenant's.

Earnings build up during the shift and are paid at the end as confiscated goods, mostly cash. Sellable items are capped at 25% and limited to keys, badges and gear.

$9,000–15,000 per arrest, $2,000 per kill plus $5,000 kill salary, $4,000 for seizing a criminal's loot and $2,000 for a vehicle's, plus 4% of a killed criminal's gear value. The salary cap is $1,000,000.

Cops don't risk their own gear, so the pay is lower by design.

A surrender order gives +20% on the arrest for 20 seconds. The siren gives +20% on lawful actions for 20 seconds and calls backup within 35 m. Joining through a reinforcement call gives +25% salary and free gear for 15 minutes.

No. Cops can only kill criminals, and killing someone who surrendered pays nothing.

On a fresh server, patrol cops get pistols only for the first 30 minutes. Better gear unlocks after that.

They lose only department-issued gear and respawn in Looty Bay. Respawn takes longer after each consecutive death.

It's the countdown on the right of the screen. When it ends, the feds confiscate everything you own on that server, and your character effectively wipes.

The feds give you one when they confiscate your property, either at the weekly wipe or when you surrender to them. A normal police arrest gives no sentence.

It starts at 1 year, plus 1 year for every $500,000 of property you own on that server. One server can give you at most 40 years.

Your prison sentence. It's the only character level in the game and it survives every wipe. It unlocks tattoos and some items in Lenny's Tree.

To bank your wealth as authority right away, or to switch servers. Go to the Prison on the global map and choose "Surrender to Feds".

Find an escape point. On escape, you choose the next server (state) from a list or go to the nearest one.

They show your authority. They're unlocked by your sentence and can't be confiscated.

Yes. Since 11 November you can change it with the Tattoo Artist in the Prison.

Paying Lenny's $1,000,000 debt gives you a permanent character skin and adds 10 years to your sentence.

Cash (dirty), which can be lost or stolen. Clean money in your bank account, which players can't steal. And BCoin, which the feds can't confiscate.

Go to the Looty Bay Bank as a Citizen (no mask) and open one there. You can't launder without it.

Only by laundering. There is no direct deposit.

Get a plot and a house, place a Laundering Desk and load dirty cash onto it. Clean money arrives in your account over time, even while you're offline.

Yes, two ways: Lenny launders for a cut, or on-character laundering converts dirty cash at 2:1, up to $100,000.

Add Banknote Counters to the desk. A Small House has 3 laundering speed-up slots and a Trailer has 1. District level and clan businesses also raise the rate.

$5,000,000 in a Trailer and $50,000,000 in a Small House.

Laundering runs at a 50% penalty until it's fixed.

Cash can. Money in your bank account can't, but it's still wiped by the Federal Raid.

From any ATM or a bank employee. Once it's in your hands it's cash again and can be lost.

The premium currency. It buys cosmetics, can also be bought on the in-game exchange with clean money, and survives confiscation and wipes.

No. Roulette at Lenny's Motel pays more for more precise bets, and the max bet is $200,000.

Fences buy valuables (look for dollar-sign vans and Sales Centers). The Smuggler buys cargo. Your district's Sales Center pays a bonus.

You have to take the cash off the counter straight away. Left there, it can be stolen or confiscated.

Every district has one. Only players renting a plot in that district can sell there, and it pays +10% in level-1 districts, +20% in level 2 and +30% in Highlands.

To the Smuggler. Price depends on cargo value, quantity and your Notoriety. Since 5 November, opening cargo at your own workbench usually pays more than selling it whole.

Use it (left-click, Use), then sell it to a Fence for the amount printed on it. Higher-tier tickets can pay a lot.

There's no safe trade system yet. Any player-to-player deal is at your own risk.

The Buletti Soltempra key and Romanov R8 key ($4,000,000 each at Notoriety 1), the Unique Collection Crate ($500,000), the Golden Statue ($250,000) and the Expensive Safe ($200,000). See the full ranking in the catalog.

Trading a set of items, sometimes plus cash, for one item. It's how you get Drills, Glass Cutters, ID Cards, epic Decoders, legendary fuses and the Eviction Right.

Behind the barter door at Lenny's Motel.

• Drill: Action Camera + 2 USB Hacking Tools + $50,000
• Glass Cutter: 3 Code Tablets
• ID Card (police armory): 20 Evidence
• ID Card (bank): 1 Deposit Box Keys
• Epic Decoder: 3 Decoders + $10,000, or 1 Action Camera
• Lieutenant's Badge: 15 Sergeant's Badges
• Legendary Electronic Fuse: epic fuse + $250,000
• Eviction Right: 50 Decoders

An item you buy empty and fill with points by doing certain actions. When it's full it turns into a much more valuable version you can sell or barter.

Crack safes in Looty Bay. It needs 4 points, and a full one sells for $75,000.

Hack computers in locked rooms. It needs 5 points, and a full one sells for $200,000.

Commit crimes at the required Notoriety level. The three versions need 40, 70 and 100 points and sell full for $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000.

Hack bank deposit boxes. It needs 60 points and bartering it gives you the bank ID Card.

Hand cargo in to the Smuggler. The three versions need 5, 12 and 36 points.

Research and buy a Land Plot Title on the Trade Laptop ($50,000 research + $100,000). Then find a settlement that has an owner, pick a free spot on its map, sign at the rental sign and place your house.

You can't enter one that has no owner. Look for owned settlements on the global map.

Land Plot Titles: level 1 $50k research + $100k, level 2 $200k + $800k, level 3 $1M + $2M. Settlement Titles: level 1 $100k + $200k, level 2 $500k + $2M, level 3 $2M + $6M. Research prices can vary by server.

Either you only researched it (buying is a separate step), or the title's level doesn't match the district, or you have a Land Plot Title where you need a Settlement Title.

A Land Plot Title lets you rent a plot in someone's settlement. A Settlement Title lets you buy a whole settlement, live there free and tax the residents.

Rent a plot in someone else's settlement. The owner takes a share of your laundering and laptop purchases.

One plot at a time and up to 5 settlements.

Rent a new plot. Everything moves with you and the old plot is freed. You can't move while a raid lock is active.

The Trade Laptop tier you can buy from. It equals your plot's district level: no plot or level 1 is tier I, level 2 is tier II and level 3 is tier III.

Put them in your party. Party members have full access. There's no separate permission system.

At the collectors' van in the settlement centre. Tax builds up from residents' laundering, and no new tax accrues until you collect. There are no police in settlements, so watch your back.

No. A settlement can't be seized before the wipe, though bases inside it can still be raided.

The Trailer ($10,000) holds $5M of dirty cash and has 1 laundering slot and 5 base defense. The Small House ($600,000, tier II) holds $50M and has 3 laundering slots, 15 base defense and 27 fuse slots.

They heal you and let you respawn at your base, which is useful during a raid.

Yes. Raiders hack your buildings with Decoders, open safes with a Master Key, and can lockpick car trunks anywhere.

Every building has a security panel. Each Decoder lowers its defense, and at zero the raider gets limited access and your base gets a raid lock.

A Trailer with no fuses takes 5 basic Decoders, and with every slot full of legendary fuses it takes 50. A fully fused Small House takes 150 basic, 50 epic or 30 legendary Decoders.

Basic and legendary Decoders drop as loot. Epic ones come from barter. Shops don't sell them.

Put Electronic Fuses in every building (+1, +3 or +5 each), add an Alarm System, keep valuables in safes and security cabinets, upgrade your fence, place a First Aid Cabinet and repair hacked panels quickly.

No. Nightstands and racks open without a key once a building is hacked. Safes and security cabinets need a Master Key.

One alerts only you ($60,000), one alerts your whole clan ($200,000) and one alerts everyone at the location ($30,000, needs a 105-year sentence).

A temporary restriction after your base is hacked. It blocks moving your base, using vendors and the Black Market, and unlocking Shipments.

Fully hack every security system on their base, then use an Eviction Right (barter: 50 Decoders) on their plot plan. They lose the plot, and you can keep part of their property, including parked cars.

Only in a full eviction raid. Trunks, though, can be lockpicked any time.

Yes. Kefir says fences slow raiders down rather than stop them, and getting over a fence doesn't open your buildings.

Put a Growing Bush on a Grow Table and wait for it to mature. Harvest it for 2–4 Harvest Bags, which you sell to a Fence. The bush regrows on its own.

$4,000 (Uncommon), $6,000 (Epic) or $8,000 (Legendary) each, at Notoriety level 1.

A Fan (+12%), Water Pump (+14%) and UV Lamp (+24%). All three can be installed together. A Reservoir next to your settlement adds a 50% chance of an extra harvest.

Put reagents in the Chemical Reactor to make concentrate, freeze it in the Industrial Freezer into Hard Crystals, then either sell the crystals to the Smuggler or crush them into powder at the Lab Table and sell that to a Fence.

They drop as normal loot (cargo).

Smoke rises over a lab while it's running.

The cargo drops on the ground and the reagent in the reactor is lost.

On the Trade Laptop ($15,000, tier II). They need a 335-year sentence.

Put it on a Cargo Workbench at your base and wait. Locksmith Tools and a Cargo Saw speed it up, and a Bench Vise adds slots.

It repacks contraband cargo into more valuable cargo. Label Printers speed it up and Tool Boxes add slots. The Black Market building in Highlands boosts repack value.

Drawing a weapon drops whatever cargo you're carrying.

Sets of matching valuables you combine on a Collection Table into one crate that sells for more than the items would separately.

34: 7 basic, 7 additional, 10 special and 10 unique.

$50,000 for basic and additional sets, $150,000 for special sets and $500,000 for unique sets (to the Smuggler, at Notoriety 1).

Buy the Additional, Special and Unique Collection documents on the Trade Laptop.

Items needed for your table's collections show a magnifying glass icon in your inventory.

You need your own house first. Research the car in Lenny's Tree, buy its key on the Trade Laptop and put the key in your key locker. The car then appears in your garage.

Either you don't have a house (only rentals work without one), or the key isn't in the key locker.

Fukurou Tensa $200k and Longhorn Van $180k (tier I). Royal E $1M and Longhorn Titan $900k (tier II). Royal J $4M, Longhorn Wild $4.5M and Buletti Soltempra $10M (tier III).

The Longhorn Van. It has 6 cargo slots and 3 rack slots, so 12 cargo with Reinforced Cargo Racks.

The Buletti Soltempra (top speed 90, acceleration 95), but it can't carry any cargo.

No. A car you bought stays, and so do its mods.

The rental is recalled and anything in its trunk drops on the ground. Empty it first.

Open the hood and drag parts into the slots. ECUs add top speed, Turbo Kits and Intercoolers add acceleration, Steering Racks add handling, and Trunk Bags and Cargo Racks add space.

No. There's no nitro part in the game.

The Romanov R8 costs $10,000,000 on a Tier III laptop. You can only buy it with a base in Highlands, but it can also turn up in loot. You'll need a Helipad.

Only through skins.

Open the Clan tab in the side menu. It costs 5,000 clean money from your bank account.

Up to 100, and clans only exist on the server where they were created.

Yes, 8 hours, both for joining another clan and for creating one.

Leader, Officer, Fighter and Recruit. Leaders and Officers manage members, settings and battle bets. Recruits can't fight in clan battles.

A clan files a claim on a city business or district. At the "sit-down", the two clans offering the most money fight it out between 20:00 and 06:00. Battles are 3v3, 6v6 or 12v12 depending on the target's size.

22 city businesses (cafés, shops, hotels, the gas station, strip club, jewelry stores, the bank, the gallery, the Grand Hotel) and the desert districts. Rewards range from $250,000 to $900,000.

The leader of the clan that holds Highlands, the central district. There's one per server, and that clan taxes every other clan.

The five ranks of the game: Hobo, Settlement Resident, Settlement Owner, District Owner and Shadow Governor. Each level takes a cut from the one below.

The Federal Raid. Every 7 days, counted from when your server opened, all money, items, cars and property are confiscated and turned into prison time.

Seven days after it opened. Check the in-game timer.

Cosmetics and skins, B-Coins, premium, your name, settings, tutorial progress, your sentence (authority) and tattoos.

No. Your property is converted automatically, even if you're offline.

At least one per region every day: EU at 17:00 UTC and East US at 20:00 ET. More open automatically when servers fill up.

EU and East US. Kefir says Asia and Oceania won't come before the end of 2026.

It's shown at the top left of the global map.

On the global map, go to the Prison and choose "Surrender to Feds". Find an escape point, then pick your friend's server. You lose all property on your current server, so do it early.

Check that they're on the same server, that you're both on the global map or in a settlement, that the party isn't already 3 players, and that they're not in a clan battle.

Not in one party; the limit is 3. Larger groups play together through a clan.

No. Only official servers.

Open its page in our catalog. It shows fixed spawn spots, shops, barter recipes and the research it needs.

It depends on your budget. The RC 5.56 is the best-value rifle, the SR Reaper and DRM-14 are top-tier Legendaries, and the AP Scalar is the strongest SMG. Compare the exact numbers in the weapons table.

Upgrade levels of the same gun. Damage and fire rate stay the same. Mk2 aims faster, and Mk3 adds a bigger magazine and a little more range.

Armor has segments (1 to 4). Hits strip segments before health. Steel Plates restore 1 or 2 segments.

You can't yet. Kefir says repair is planned.

Kefir removed them from sale on 11 November after cheaters abused them. They still drop as rare loot.

It opens doors and containers without setting off the alarm. It costs $99.

Gun, equipment, electronics, jewelry, liquor, pharmacy and car-parts stores sell to Citizens at 3× the laptop price.

B-Coins for cosmetic items, plus premium for season rewards.

Yes. Skins, B-Coins and premium stay on your character through wipes and server changes.

None have been confirmed to work.

Contact Kefir support with your UID and your Steam receipt.

Press Esc. It's on the right under your character name, with a Copy UID button.

First check whether your server wiped and whether you're on the right Steam account. Then send Kefir support your UID, player name and the approximate time.

Cheats, exploiting bugs, real-money trading, selling accounts, harassment, spam and doxxing. Cheating means a permanent ban.

Email robrun.support@kefircyprus.com, which is Kefir's official address. robrun.space can't help with accounts or purchases.

Unconfirmed, but widely reported: press Alt+F4 and relaunch right away. Kefir linked early connection problems to DDoS attacks.

The same Alt+F4 relaunch works for many players. Also verify your game files in Steam.

The game can't reach the server. Check your internet and try changing DNS.

Easy Anti-Cheat isn't running or is blocked. Launch only through Steam, disable background network tools, verify files and restart your PC.

No keyboard or mouse was detected, usually because of Remote Desktop or cloud streaming.

An unexpected internal error. Restart, and if it keeps happening, send the error text to support.

Your mouse polling rate is too high. Lower it in your mouse software.

Unconfirmed: players with older CPUs that lack AVX2 report this. Otherwise update drivers, verify files and close overlays.

There's no official status page. Check Kefir's pinned Steam forum thread, Discord or X.

No. It's an unofficial fan site and isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by KEFIR or the ROB RUN team.

Kefir's official posts and help center, patch notes, in-game verification and community research. Each page shows its sources and the game build it was checked against.

After every patch, usually within 48 hours. Each page shows its last-updated date.

Email support@robrun.space with the page link and what's wrong. A screenshot helps.

Yes. Send corrections, map spots or screenshots to support@robrun.space.

No, and we don't link to anyone who does. Kefir bans real-money trading.